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Dietary Changes Part: 2

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  When I was in high school, during my second year, I found myself eating more fried foods and drinking more milk than usual. I thought it was okay, not the healthiest, but what school provides healthy food? They love promoting it, but they don’t necessarily enforce it. Everyone was fine eating it, so what could go wrong? I was eating spicy fried chicken sandwiches and cheese-stuffed pizza, and I learned that dipping them in ranch or blue cheese tasted good. I drink chocolate milk, and on Fridays, I treat myself to ice cream. The year before was exciting, my grades were great, and everything seemed new and exciting. Sophomore year became the opposite. I didn’t understand why, but it was like flipping a coin. Everything was exciting, but everything was boring; topics were not interesting, the teachers were even pissy and annoyingly difficult. On top of everything I was dragging. I felt so fogged up. As if I could sleep all day. My case manager saw what was going on with my cla...
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Holiday Treats

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  We all know how difficult the holidays can be when you have dietary restrictions especially when you discover your allergies later in life and develop cravings for foods that you no longer can eat. I discovered my allergies when I was 16 years almost 17 and grew up eating just about everything including my mom's German Christmas Cookies such as Butter Cookies, Vanillekipferl, Lebkuchen, Pfeffernüsse, Spritzgebäck, and the list can go on. There are so many and not just cookies. Potato casual, apple pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, biscuits and gravy, hash-brown caesural. I only had these once a year. These dishes have triggered the pleasure part of my brain for so long to where I can still taste them all making it so difficult to stay away and I've been gluten and cow dairy free sense 2009. Luckily for some of these dishes, my family and I were able to substitute the ingredients. For others did not have to. I even found new recipes as well. So instead of conti...
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Two conflicting Too Overwhelming

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  Being autistic doesn't mean that you're just autistic. No no, it does not! Because that would make things too easy. One of the that makes autism so different to many individuals is that it pares up with one or two other conditions. Possibly even more than two. One does not simply have one. Photographic memory is one of the most common ones that I have heard about and wish I had myself. Photographic memory is exactly what it sounds like. You read, see, or hear about something once and forever remember it. I can see this condition as a blessing and a burden. It's a blessing because it allows you to learn new things very quickly and will forever remember it and allows you to move ahead in your studies. I see it as a burden because if you come across something you wish to forget, you are forever stuck with this memory. This condition is what makes people believe that people with autism have unusually high intelligence and the fact that your brain nev...
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Halloween Special

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  Happy Halloween Everyone! Feel free to sit by a fire or a dimly lit lamp with a cup of tea or glass of whiskey whatever suits your liking. I have some spooky history to tell you about that can be quite haunting. It begins in 1883 When a scientist and cousin of Charles Darwin named Francis Galton comes up with the term Eugenics which is the belief in the perfect race. Many intellectuals and political leaders backed this theory such as  Alexander Graham Bell, Winston Churchill, John Maynard Keynes, and Woodrow Wilson. These are only a few of the many people that backed this concept, turning it into a movement where they promoted compensating those who marry and conceive children by the government's approval that they have met the expectation of what is deemed as fit. Those who were not deemed as such were allowed to live out their lives once they went through forced sterilization. This movement helped to spark many other disturbing events that change...
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Head banging to achieving unknown goals

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  Hi everyone, I know that I have been away and am not posting as I would. In the past, I stated that I would post every week. Unfortunately, my schedule is not allowing me to do so. On top of this blog, I am also committed to doing various other projects such as writing my books, which I can't wait to talk about once I finish my first draft. In my photography business, Naturally Nature Photography, I'm trying different printing techniques on how to print onto wood, so that I can do the prints myself rather than going through a secondary party to print my work making my art more pricey than I would like to. Can't wait to show you the result of my attempts. Alongside these projects, I also work part-time at Home Depot for an average of 30 hours a week. As well as looking for a new place to live and prepping for a trip to Germany next year. I have a tendency to take on so much it gets to the point where I just wonder if these projects are going to get me anywhere. It ge...
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To be or not to be Autistic

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  To be or not to be autistic, is the question. I know, I just went Shakespearean on all of you. There are many wanted and unwanted desires of people wishing to be or not to be autistic. I have come across a few people that speculate that they are autistic simply because they feel awkward about themselves and want a logical explanation, and feel that placing themselves on the spectrum is good enough of an explanation. Some claim to have the symptoms for themselves that are or aren't subtle and wonder if should I consider the possibility. Some are autistic but have just never been diagnosed and question why am I the way I am. I even come across parents who want to place their children on the spectrum just because they want them to be special. The desire to be autistic is tragic to me. It's like Macbeth killing King Duncan, just to become king himself but finds himself losing his mind out of paranoia and guilt instead of what he thought would be bliss. You are going to d...
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Brain Fog

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  In my last post, I talked about having to deal with a fogged-up mind, static thoughts, and feeling disconnected from socializing with others. Want to connect with people while having no idea how to open up to others. In this post, I'm going to talk about one of the major things that helped me open up to others and be able to become more social other than horseback riding. The summer just before my soft-more year of high school I stayed with my Grandmother for a couple of weeks in Tennessee. During my stay, I was provided with southern food (comfort food, as they called it), more than what I was used to, along with a glass of milk with every breakfast. Beforehand I didn't drink much milk, but for some odd reason, this new routine got me to drink more milk and eat more yogurt. My Mother didn't think much of it, she was pleased that I started doing this, since milk is healthy for you after all. For years my Mother tried to get me to gain weight since throughout my en...
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